Author: Xia, G.X.
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MOPOMS010 Beam Dynamics and Drive Beam Losses Within a Planar Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator 641
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  • T.J. Overton, Y.M. Saveliev
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • T.H. Pacey, Y.M. Saveliev
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • G.X. Xia
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) Student Grant
Beam-driven dielectric wakefield accelerators (DWA) have the potential to provide accelerating gradients in the GV/m range. The transverse dynamics in such devices need to be understood to avoid instabilities over long transport distances and facilitate beam matching to specific applications (e.g. FELs). This presentation details simulation studies of the magnitude of beam-breakup instability (BBU) in planar dielectric lined waveguides (DLWs). These are for DWA drive beams, with high charge and momentum that can be produced at current facilities. Using a series of perpendicular DLW segments has been proposed to control instabilities over larger distances. Using self-developed software, the beam dynamics of a drive beam within a DLW are simulated and the magnitude of beam losses along a DLW of varying lengths calculated and beam quality preservation investigated. Methods to reduce transverse instabilities have been explored, and the impact of these on the length of a possible DWA acceleration stage are investigated. An acceleration stage with m-scale length, consisting of multiple alternating planar DLWs, is suggested and preservation of beam quality along this distance is shown.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOMS010  
About • Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Revised ※ 11 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 13 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 17 June 2022
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MOPOMS016 Application of Nanostructures and Metamaterials in Accelerator Physics 659
 
  • J. Resta-López
    ICMUV, Paterna, Spain
  • Ö. Apsimon, C. Bonțoiu, C.P. Welsch
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • A. Bonatto
    Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • B. Galante
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • C.P. Welsch
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • G.X. Xia
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the Generalitat Valenciana under Grant agreement No. CIDEGENT/2019/058.
Carbon-based nanostructures and metamaterials offer extraordinary mechanical and opto-electrical properties, which make them suitable for applications in diverse fields, including, for example, bioscience, energy technology and quantum computing. In the latest years, important R&D efforts have been made to investigate the potential use of graphene and carbon-nanotube (CNT) based structures to manipulate and accelerate particle beams. In the same way, the special interaction of graphene and CNTs with charged particles and electromagnetic radiation might open interesting possibilities for the design of compact coherent radiation sources, and novel beam diagnostics techniques as well. This paper gives an overview of novel concepts based on nanostructures and metamaterials with potential application in the field of accelerator physics. Several examples are shown and future prospects discussed.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOMS016  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 13 June 2022  
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WEPOST043 An Effective-Density Model for Accelerating Fields in Laser-Graphene Interactions 1795
 
  • C. Bonțoiu, Ö. Apsimon, E. Kukstas, C.P. Welsch, M. Yadav
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • A. Bonatto
    Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • J. Resta-López
    ICMUV, Paterna, Spain
  • G.X. Xia
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This work was supported by STFC Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data Intensive Science (LIV. DAT)
With the advancement of high-power UV laser technology, the use of nanostructures for particle acceleration attracts renewed interest due to its possibility of achieving TV/m accelerating gradients in solid state plasmas. Electron acceleration in ionized materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene is currently considered as a potential alternative to the usual laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) schemes. An evaluation of the suitability of a graphene target for LWFA can be carried out using an effective density model, thus replacing the need to model each layer. We present a 2D evaluation of the longitudinal electric field driven by a short UV laser pulse in a multi-layer graphene structure, showing that longitudinal fields of ~5 TV/m are achievable.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST043  
About • Received ※ 20 May 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 20 June 2022
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